A heart-breaking video of a polar bear ravenous to demise within the Baffin Islands of Canada introduced consideration to the challenges bears face because of local weather change. Whereas in China footage of a bear mendacity in its cage at a bile farm, the bars simply broad sufficient to poke out a paw, and protection of rescued ‘bile bears’ in Vietnam, arriving at sanctuaries with immense psychological and bodily issues, some too weak to stroll or climb after a lifetime in cages, raised consideration to the plight of those mistreated animals. With habitats starting from forests to woodland and grasslands to sea, bears are intriguing and charming – however going through a bleak future.
With shrinking ice and inaccessibility to prey, polar bears may very well be extinct by 2050, local weather change is inflicting their habitat to fairly actually soften away. Grizzly bears are threatened with extinction as their habitat is destroyed by logging, mining, oil and fuel drilling and land improvement. 1000’s of Asiatic black bears (moon bears), solar bears, and brown bears, are saved, for many years, in cages and farmed for his or her bile. Panda bears are being pushed, by habitat fragmentation, into smaller, much less habitable areas, and with bamboo making up 99% of their diets, the shrinking of bamboo forests is inflicting meals shortages. The Worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates that fewer than 20,000 sloth bears survive within the wilds of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka. Of the eight bear species on this planet, the IUCN lists six as weak or endangered, the one exceptions being black and brown bears, who’re nonetheless in danger in sure areas.
Remembering Wildlife is the collective title for the sequence of books created by British wildlife photographer Margot Raggett, who in 2014 started asking fellow wildlife photographers if they’d contribute to a fundraising e-book for animal conservation. Their response was unanimous and Remembering Elephants, was printed in 2016, with photos donated by 65 of the world’s prime wildlife photographers. Such was the success that Remembering Rhinos was shortly introduced and launched in 2017, as soon as once more to essential acclaim. Remembering Nice Apes, the third e-book within the sequence, was printed in 2018 and featured photos donated by 72 photographers and a foreword by Dr Jane Goodall. In 2019 the fourth e-book within the sequence, Remembering Lions launched, adopted by Remembering Cheetahs, which received the GOLD award for greatest nature e-book in The Impartial Writer Guide Awards. 2021 noticed the discharge of Remembering African Wild Canines.
Because the first e-book in 2016, greater than 230 of the world’s greatest wildlife photographers have generously contributed to the Remembering Wildlife sequence, greater than 33,000 books have been bought, and over $1.24 million USD has been distributed to 59 totally different conservation tasks, in 24 international locations, throughout Africa and Asia. Now, the beautiful imagery of a brand new e-book within the sequence, Remembering Bears, is elevating consciousness of the plight going through these particular animals and elevating cash to guard them.
Founding father of Remembering Wildlife Margot Raggett says, “people have lengthy had a particular relationship with bears – we hug them at evening as kids and love seeing them in story books and on display screen. But, in the true world, they’re not all the time seen with the identical affection and may been seen as a nuisance or a risk… Some face lives of distress – as dancing bears, illegally trafficked as pets or used for medication – or face severe threats and extinction by way of local weather change, searching or human-wildlife battle… By photos and phrases, this e-book shines a highlight on their range, magnificence and resilience in addition to elevating consciousness of their plight and elevating funds for organisations passionately preventing for the way forward for bears.”
Every web page of this stunning e-book reveals one other placing picture of one of many eight bear species – American black bear, Andean bear, Asiatic black bear, brown bear, large panda, polar bear, sloth bear and solar bear – revealing tender moments with relations, fierce territorial battles and the cruel actuality of life as a bear.
Remembering Bears options photos from greater than 80 of the world’s greatest wildlife photographers, together with Marsel van Oosten, Joshua Holko, Dave Sandford, Andrew Parkinson, Vladimir Cech Jr, Kevin Dooley, Tristan Dicks, Will Burrard-Lucas, Shivag Mehta, Fredrik Granath, Daniel Rosengren, Sabrina Schumann, Anjali Singh and Amy Gulick, who’ve generously donated photos displaying bears of their pure habitats from China to Peru, Alaska to Borneo. This yr’s cowl picture was taken by Morten Jørgensen.
Among the many beautiful images, Remembering Bears additionally options 10 successful photos from a worldwide competitors.
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Bears are sometimes ignored among the many dwindling animal species of our planet. Many individuals have the misunderstanding that “if you happen to go all the way down to the woods immediately… each bear that ever there was, will collect there for sure” … on a worldwide scale although, the way forward for bears is much much less sure. Bears are extraordinarily clever creatures. Not solely can they rely in addition to primates, they’ve additionally realized to make use of instruments and are extremely delicate to emotion. In addition to happiness, bears expertise grief, and have demonstrated trauma responses. Their eyesight is way sharper than people (and so they have evening imaginative and prescient), their ears are twice as delicate as ours, and so they can scent a meal as much as 20 miles away. However they’re additionally threatened by habitat loss, human-animal battle, searching, the unlawful pet commerce, highway kills and exploitation, resembling dancing bears and bear bile farms. To assist elevate funds for conservation tasks to guard bears, spend money on a duplicate of Remembering Bears. Every copy of Remembering Bears prices £45 GBP (roughly $50 USD) and copies might be ordered at www.rememberingwildlife.com.
Remembering Wildlife exists to lift consciousness of the plight going through wildlife, in addition to funds to guard it. Well-known supporters of the sequence embody Russell Crowe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Chris Martin, Pierce Brosnan and plenty of extra. Additional details about Remembering Wildlife, and the tasks it has already funded, might be discovered on their web site.
